Chapter 142 The Missing Child (1)
After returning from his parents' home on Monday, Sun Liang immediately began searching and understanding the situation of cross-border child trafficking crimes.
You don’t know until you see it, and you’ll be shocked when you see it!
Sun Liang discovered that as social development under the background of globalization entered an unprecedented period of prosperity, the primitive and barbaric crime of trafficking in women and children was also developing and spreading in every corner of the world.
With the smooth flow of modern transportation, innovation in communication technology, and the increasing openness of countries, the free mobility of population has increased. This ancient and primitive abominable crime of trafficking in women and children has also shown new changes, which are characterized by:
——The number of cases is huge.
The International Organization for Migration estimates that millions of people are trafficked worldwide, most of them vulnerable women and children.
According to relevant data, hundreds of thousands of women and children in Asia suffer the fate of illegal trafficking each year. According to a survey report from the United States, as many as 50,000 women and children from Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe are trafficked to the United States under various false pretenses and forced into prostitution, abused labor, or domestic service.
——Victims of trafficking mainly flow into developed countries.
Trafficked women and children mainly flow from East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, South America, Central America, Africa, Eastern Europe and other countries to North America and Western Europe.
For example, in the past few years, the United States conducted a survey of hundreds of brothels in some cities and discovered a large number of child women from Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines and Thailand, as well as Russia, Ukraine, Albania, Mexico, Nigeria and other countries... Some of them were reduced to strippers, some were forced to become prostitutes, some were forced to become indentured servants, and some young girls were sold to remote mobile brothels.
Since the 1990s, trafficked women and children have been flowing between East, Southeast, and South Asian countries. Cross-border trafficking of women and children has occurred to varying degrees in countries such as Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Nepal, India, Cambodia, the Philippines, China, and Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.
——There are various methods of trafficking.
As international exchanges become more open, the methods of trafficking women and children are constantly evolving. Criminals often use illegal labor exports, illegal entry and exit, illegal adoptions, transnational marriages, organized tours, missionary work, and even trafficking women and children through the internet...
——The degree of organization is getting higher and higher.
Due to its high profits and low risks, human trafficking has become one of the fastest growing and most profitable criminal industries in the world.
According to relevant expert analysis, the world makes huge profits from human trafficking crimes every year, which has reached hundreds of billions of dollars. This ancient and primitive crime has now jumped to third place after drug trafficking and arms smuggling.
Some organized transnational criminal groups have made trafficking in women and children another important business after drug and gun trafficking...
Drug trafficking gangs in some countries have even abandoned drug smuggling and turned to trafficking women and children. The reason this age-old crime is favored by international criminal gangs and is becoming increasingly rampant is due to the global pornography industry, both overt and covert. The spread and development of these industries has objectively provided a huge underground market for the trafficking of women and children.
Huge profits make people take risks!
In order to earn more profits, some international criminal organizations take advantage of the economic imbalances between countries and regions around the world, constantly abducting women and children from poor areas and bringing them to wealthy areas through various illegal means...
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